I followed the first edition of this book during my master's degree Data Mining course. This is a good book (not too math heavy like [0]). It is a good book for

I followed the first edition of this book during my master's degree Data Mining course. This is a good book (not too math heavy like [0]). It is a good book for somebody getting into data mining but it is more theoretical. For another excellent book that concentrates on building models using R I highly recommend [1] which has a great balance of theory and practical. Fun fact regarding [1] - one of the authors is the daughter of the renowned physicist Ed Witten. [0] https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/ https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/ [1] http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/